0930 - At his briefing with skippers this morning, Principal Race Officer John Craig told the teams he intends to run the full schedule of racing today - three fleet races, followed by three match races.

0835 - Check out Dean Barker talking about racing multihulls here.

0830 - First, let's start with the forecast: Northeasterly winds this morning will ease and give way to a building Northwesterly this afternoon.

At start time of 1410, the forecast is for patchy winds in the 7 to 10 knot range. But these will become more solid over the course of the afternoon, eventually building to 15-20 Northwesterlies by 1700.